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William Harrison defends the big banks

The op-ed in the NYT is coherent; it's just not compelling. Harrison doesn't lay out substantive arguments, offer evidence or wrestle with the most serious charges against the big banks; he dismisses them as if they were some simplistic whining of a bunch of cranks. Continue reading

Posted on August 23, 2012 1:12 PM




Jon Meacham's American Dream

Newsmagazine essays like Meacham's in Time are not meant to be carefully read, pondered or deconstructed; they're to be inhaled, like the smoke from a barbecue or a bong. Continue reading

Posted on June 26, 2012 2:06 PM




Jon Gertner's 'The Idea Factory'

'The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation' is not an institutional history in the academic sense; rather, it's an attempt to see a once-pre-eminent institution through the lives of some of its most noteworthy employees. Continue reading

Posted on June 19, 2012 12:10 PM




Jon Gertner's 'The Idea Factory'

'The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation' is not an institutional history in the academic sense; rather, it's an attempt to see a once-pre-eminent institution through the lives of some of its most noteworthy employees. Continue reading

Posted on June 19, 2012 11:29 AM




The private equity debate: That '70s show

The fallacy of both attackers and defenders of private equity is the belief that we somehow live in static times. Continue reading

Posted on May 24, 2012 1:09 PM




Bloomberg Businessweek on Obama, economic steward

Ah, but it's the silly season. Presidents generally can't win when the political pundits go looking for an economic angle. If the economy is good, it's the cycle. If it's bad, it's their fault. Continue reading

Posted on March 26, 2012 12:13 PM




Why M&A isn't going away

What we do know is that the U.S. economy has a growth problem. In a world where no solution lacks side effects, M&A, within reason, remains safe and essential. Continue reading

Posted on February 29, 2012 1:14 PM




Stiglitz explains the Great Depression

By now seemingly everyone with access to a blog has contributed to the theory Joseph Stiglitz offers up in, of all places, the new Vanity Fair, about the causes not just of the Great Depression, but analogously, what he calls our own 'Long Slump.' Continue reading

Posted on December 20, 2011 1:32 PM




Nicholas Wapshott's 'Keynes Hayek'

Nicholas Wapshott's 'Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics,' appears just as the debate over austerity is once again heating up and a presidential campaign is lurching into gear, to the grind of metal and to a haze of blue smoke. Continue reading

Posted on November 3, 2011 1:08 PM




Leonhardt on why the Great Depression was good

David Leonhardt in The New York Times is really asking: How can we get back to that marvelous age of the '50s with its amazing economic growth, low unemployment, great equality of incomes and world supremacy? Continue reading

Posted on October 11, 2011 12:43 PM




Nicholas Wapshott's 'Keynes Hayek'

Nicholas Wapshott's 'Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics,' appears just as the debate over austerity is once again heating up and a presidential campaign is lurching into gear, to the grind of metal and to a haze of blue smoke. Continue reading

Posted on September 26, 2011 1:18 PM




The long view

After a career of nearly 80 years, Seth Glickenhaus is still calling the market. Continue reading

Posted on September 6, 2011 12:27 PM




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